Mohsen Ghaffari

Associate Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Quick answer: Mohsen Ghaffari is Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mohsen Ghaffari shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ PhD positions: If you're interested in working with me and my team and have a strong algorithmic background, please submit an application to our PhD program and mention my name. Unfortunately, I am not able to answer individual emails.

Research interests

Theoretical computer science, with a focus on distributed and parallel algorithms.

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2024] Mohsen Ghaffari and Christoph Grunau. Near-Optimal Deterministic Network Decomposition and Ruling Set, and Improved MIS. IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2024. Best Paper Award at FOCS'24 [2024] Mohsen Ghaffari and Anton Trygub. A Near-Optimal Low-Energy Deterministic Distributed SSSP with Ramifications on Congestion and APSP. ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2024. [2024] Mohsen Ghaffari and Anton Trygub. Parallel Dynamic Maximal Matching. ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2024. [2024] Shashwat Chandra, Yi-Jun Chang, Michal Dory, Mohsen Ghaffari, and Dean Leitersdorf. Fast Broadcast in Highly Connected Networks. ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2024. [2024] Mohsen Ghaffari and

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Is Mohsen Ghaffari hiring PhD students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Mohsen Ghaffari's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: PhD positions: If you're interested in working with me and my team and have a strong algorithmic background, please submit an application to our PhD program and mention my name. Unfortunately, I am no.

What does Mohsen Ghaffari research?

Theoretical computer science, with a focus on distributed and parallel algorithms.

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